TPMS BENEFITS

If your car seems to be running smoothly, you can get by with checking your tire pressure. Tires lose about one PSI every month after filling them, so checking every month can help to ensure that they are always inflated to the proper pressure.
It is recommended to check tire pressure weekly, though, as well as before any long road trip to ensure that your tires are properly filled. To know how many pounds per square inch (psi) of air your tires should be, you can look in two places: in your driver’s manual, or the chart inside you driver’s side door. A numerical value will be listed, and you can adjust most digital air pressurizers to that number.

Vehicles with properly inflated tires experience optimum:

• Improve vehicle handling
• Reduce braking distances
• Decrease tire wear
• Lower the risk of hydroplaning
• Save money at the pump through improved fuel economy

• Increased wear and tear on the sides of your tires
• Less responsive to steering
• Less efficient braking
• Tread breakdown
• Tire separation from rim
• Damaged rim or axle

USING TPMS WILL GIVE YOU:

DRIVER SAFETY

When your tires are underinflated, they can’t perform well on the road. An estimated nearly 700 vehicle crashes are caused by underinflated tires every day. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that tires under-inflated by 25% cause three times as many car accidents as correctly inflated tires.

EFFECTIVENESS

Safety studies have shown that the presence of TPMS resulted in a 55.6% reduction in the likelihood that the vehicle would have one more severely underinflated tires (NHTSA).

FUEL SAVINGS

Properly inflated tires save the typical passenger car 9.32 gallons of fuel, and over an entire year, TPMS saved approximately $511 million for the TPMS-equipped vehicle population (NHTSA).

• If the driver ignores tire pressure for a month – tires naturally lose 1 PSI to 2 PSI per month – the resulting pressure drop could reduce fuel economy to 23.1 MPG, on average.
• Changing from summer to winter, a typical drop of 50°F translates to about 5 PSI under inflation. In addition to the cold-weather fuel economy impact, the extra rolling resistance will reduce fuel economy to just 20.3 MPG.

ENVIRONMENTAL

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans drive an average of 12,000 miles a year. With an average of 20 pounds of C02 emitted per gallon of gasoline consumed, the typical passenger car in the U.S. releases over five tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year. Driving on properly inflated tires reduces your fuel consumption and carbon footprint.